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D.L.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at D.L.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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D.L. Orton
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Buckeye — Patrick Ryan — 4.25/5 — ★★★★☆ ¼ — Recommended ✅ Ryan builds a deep, believable portrait of lives in a small town. The prose moves clean and close; grief and loyalty share a pulse. Small moments land hard and stay. The men feel carved from ha ...more |
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| Ordinary Grace is a damn good novel for most of its run—quiet, sharp, and soaked in small-town summer heat. Krueger nails that “one season that changes you” feeling: the details feel lived-in, the family dynamics land, and the grief arrives sideways ...more | |
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Thanks so much for reading and reviewing! 🙏❤️🐝 In a future book, I will attempt to make you fall in love with Dave just like Isabel did! 😬 So I ...more " |
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Hive: A Dystopian Time-Travel Thriller (Madders of Time Book 1)
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Thanks for READING and reviewing! 😉 The audiobook is coming! It's in production now. Noah, who is the awesome voice of Diego and Matt is facing ...more " |
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Book 2 is up for pre-order! 🍭 The journey is the reward. Thanks for joining me! Warm regards, Deb " |
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| Hive is a gripping, emotionally charged tale that explores survival, love, and the consequences of playing with time. Set in a dying world where the last remnants of humanity are trapped inside a decaying biodome, the story follows Isabel and Diego a ...more | |
“Oh, come on. Drama is just life with the dull bits cut out.”
“Well, I’m ready for a long patch of boredom.”
― Crossing in Time
“Well, I’m ready for a long patch of boredom.”
― Crossing in Time
“Minutes turn into hours, and lifetimes into moments. Universes are created and destroyed with nary a pop. What was saved, no longer ex- ists. What was lost, no longer matters.”
― Crossing in Time
― Crossing in Time
“Death,” Madders says in his professor voice, “is not as glamorous as the brochure makes it out to be.”
― Hive: A Dystopian Time-Travel Thriller
― Hive: A Dystopian Time-Travel Thriller
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
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“The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.”
― Altered Carbon
― Altered Carbon
“The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.”
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
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Hi Beth!Nice to see you over here, too!
Can you believe all the snow we've been getting!?
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Hi Deb,Thanks for befriending this fellow Colorado writer here as well as elsewhere!
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